Football Supporters’ Rights in Europe
A Transformative Moment or Forever ‘a Lost Cause
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7990956 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen (0000-0002-0085-2321, Liverpool John Moores University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 357-375 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2520-8683 • E-ISSN: 2520-8691 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s41978-025-00188-2 |
| OpenAlex | W4412586060 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 46 |
Over several decades, scholars have demonstrated that, across contested spaces of leisure, the policing of football supporters raises questions speaking to their human rights and civil liberties, including the right to leisure. As this article argues, the recent, separate but consistent issues at high-profile European football events (2021-24) are emblematic of this. Yet, these events have been followed by institutional discursive emphases upon the importance of supporter rights and engagement for football’s future. Hence, this article contributes with an understanding of the wider macro-structures that have enabled or loom in the background of this regularized indifference towards supporters’ rights in Europe. It therefore focuses on a broader context, characterized by overlapping public (dis)order fields, discursive practices, and interlinked barriers to transformation within football’s political economy. As contended, these contribute towards an indifference toward football supporters’ rights and leisure spaces and worlds. This reveals how long-term political, bureaucratic and commercial struggles, thus, contribute towards a contradictive position on the (un)importance of human rights and civil liberties within an important leisure context
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